“In doing this, you would save them and yourself from misery and heartaches.”

“The misery of the past, the struggles of the present, and the duty for the future, demand that no effort be left untried, that all energy be exercised, and that all opportunity be taken advantage of.”

“They said she was a misery because she'd worked the Baby's Room for so long and so many of them died.”

“England's World Cup song should embrace the national pastimes of miserabilism and self-deprecation.”

“But perhaps Gwyneth was able to clinch the deal by demonstrating that she had some familiarity with existential miserabilism.”

“So if French intellectuals are predominantly critical pessimists, miserabilism may in part be the consequence of holding them in such esteem.”

“Gissing is never more of a miserabilist than when trying to be light-hearted.”

“In the light of this sexist, miserabilist orthodoxy, surely clear-eyed, hard-hearted happiness is the most maddeningly subversive weapon a woman can wield.”

“The theatre of fear is a cultural expression of our miserabilist times.”

“This includes killing, bodily or mental harm, preventing births, immiseration and forcibly transferring children.”

“The first is the supposed correlation between market-friendly policies and mass immiseration.”

“That gap creates lots of profound problems, but the progressive immiseration of the citizenry is not one of them.”

“You know, Jers, you've become one incredible miseryguts. A grumpy old granny. I mean, I'm offering you a hand, here.”

“He was regarded standoffish or withdrawn or even as a miseryguts.”

“Miserablism is the opposite of utopianism, a dystopian mindset that believes we are all doomed.”

“They won't be miserly with their miserableness. They'll generously share it with customers, who will soon feel equally miserable when they think about entering your coffee bar.”

“His face twisted into a mix of nervousness and miserableness and he finally walked over and sat down, leaning against the bed.”

“Why did Aunt Debbie have to ruin my complete miserableness and make everyone notice me?”

“The last thing she read to him was a three-volume edition of les miserables.”

“But presently she felt the sharp corner of les miserables digging into her side.”

“Hugo, in 'les miserables,' says men solidified their ideas in architecture before the printed page came from the brain of Faust.”

“What miseries were endured, and what injustices were done, because well-intentioned leaders lacked the quality of moral quick-wittedness!”

“A factory job with all its miseries would be better than being at the mercy of this woman's power over your job and cottage.”

“Italy's current economic miseries date approximately from the time when the euro replaced the lira.”